1876.] Ancient Bioellings and Tombs in Baluchistdn. 173 



containing earth, stones, bones, (occasionally charred) teeth, charcoal, and 

 •in one case a small stone knife. The contents, with the possible exception 

 of the bones, appear to have been washed in by water. Besides the earthen 

 pots, pieces of shell bracelets, stone cubes like large dice, stone and j)ottery 

 beads, fragments of copper bracelets, grinding stones, and round stones like 

 cannon balls were found in the enclosures. 



About 40 miles west of Sutkagen Dor is a place called Damba Koh or 

 Dambani Koh (the hill of dambs, i. e., cairns). A range of hills is covered 

 with little square stone enclosures 8 or 9 feet square at the base, each hav- 

 ing a single door which usually faces up the hill ; a few, without apparent 

 reason, have openings to the north, i. e. at right angles to the others. 

 These enclosures were originally plastered over with mud and diminished 

 in size above, but they are for the most part ruined and of many only a circle 

 of stones remains. It is not clear whether these little enclosures were 

 dwellings or tombs, but they were probably the latter. All contained ear- 

 then pots originally and much of the pottery is coated with a green glaze. 



The country around the hills is a level of grey clay, and the bills con- 

 sist of beds of similar clay tilted up and interstratified with limestone or 

 calcareous sandstone, blocks of which are used for building. Two hills 

 away from the main range are covered with ruins of stone hotises built very 

 close together. Most of these contained several rooms, each from 15 to 20 

 feet square. These ruius are probably the remains of the city, the inhabitants 

 of which were buried in the " dambs." Details of the construction of these 

 houses are given in the paper. Pottery, beads, &c., were found and a coin 

 with some Greek letters still visible. The forms of the pottery discovered 

 are different from those now used in Baluchistan. 



In the neighbourhood of one of the hills remains of a furnace were found 

 which had apparently been employed for burning vitrified bricks. None of 

 these were found in the houses, but it is supposed that a fine red earth 

 which abounds is due to their decomposition. 



Remains of another city called Darmani ban exist 5 miles south-east 

 of Damba Koh and consist of a number of lai-ge houses packed closely 

 together on a solitary hill, and of " dambs" on the hills around. The latter 

 are not so well preserved as at Damba Koh. Here also the remains of a 

 furnace were found. Forty miles soiith of Damba Koh at a place called 

 Jiini (or Junri) there are more " dambs", but they are, with rare exceptions, 

 oval or circular, not square, and no . door could be found, though one may 

 have existed on the west side which is always more ruined than the others. 

 These dambs are on level ground, not on hills. In one a jwt with bones was 

 found, and some fragments of iron, in otliers pottery, stones for sharpenino" 

 knives, copper bracelets, and in one case a copper lamp, cornelian beads, 

 ornaments, a lot of decomposed iron and bones. 



